Everybody loves their own kids.... so stop saying yours are the best.

There. Got that off my chest.

I've enjoyed looking at some photos from the last few years. Here are some recent ones from Cambodia.

Rachel was great in Cambodia.
She has a heart for kids. Spent so much time with the children in our group..... and she connected with the Kui kids in a way that the adults on our team did not - because we could not.
Here are Patrick, Jordan, Rachel, Austin, Colton, and Hailey at Angkor Wat.


Rachel tried fried tarantula
for a snack on her 19th birthday.

Yes! Fried Tarantula! No, the Lewis family members do not eat these every day.

We just happened to be traveling from the big city to the little village and stopped to have lunch.




















These lovely ladies are Jordan, Rachel, Hailey, and Jacqueline. Just having a little hairstyling fun in the bedroom. A little break from the morning of painting the medical building.

It was also a break from various other games that they played with the kids inside and outside. Uno. Phase 10. Catch Phrase.

Yes, I love my kids. I love Rachel for who she is. Caring, compassionate, with a heart for lost people. And she is willing to spent time with them, even when it is uncomfortable and hard to do that.
I love each of my children. As I am sure all bloggers do. So no need to say yours are better. We can all love our kids and see the good qualities in them. No shortage of time and space in our hearts to love kids. Our own and others. No limits.

Rachel in rice

This is good. Found the files of pics from our Cambodia trip. (Computer crashed while we were there; my camera went missing, so these are a hodgepodge of photos. Still recovering files from my backup - which I had done just before I left :) )

The Kui villagers loved Rachel. This is a picture of her planting rice. We all went to plant for a while. A couple of the group did not participate; the rest of us were in up to our knees before long. Rachel slipped on in and the villagers did not quite know what to do - so they did what they do when they are embarassed - laugh! And laugh! And laugh! We all laughed so much.

The rest of the group quit but we were invited to stay. Jordan Lewis stayed with us until lunch time. The Kui people worked on teaching Rachel how to say "I am planting Rice" and "It is hot" and they kept having fun with her accent. They seem to really like Rachel. They are in awe of her., almost.